What will happen to Windows Mobile?
Expanded from my tweet earlier today: HTC sells 80% of Windows Mobile phones. HTC rumored to be expect Android on 50% of its handsets in 2010 If this rumor is true, it…
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HTML5 from a Mobile Perspective
At the risk of being accused of wearing mobile-tinted glasses, HTML5 is going to big a deal and it will be relevant much sooner than people think.
iPhone Questions
Here are some questions I’ve been asking iPhone owners: Have you moved Safari icon off of the home screen onto one of the secondary screens? Have you used Safari on your iPhone in the past…
Are CSS Sprites A Mobile Web “Worst Practice?”
There’s an interesting article on mobiforge.com that talks about the pitfalls of using CSS sprites for mobile web content. While there are several reasons why sprites may not be a good idea, two stand…
Reminder: Mobile Portland Tonight
Tonight’s topic is “Building an iPhone Business: A Look Back to Look Ahead” by Elia Freedman (Infinity Softworks). For more details see the Mobile Portland site at http://www.mobileportland.com/ Hope to see you there!…
Mobile Browser Test (One Year Later)
Hey there. It’s been a year since we first opened our mobile browser concurrency test for people to use, so I thought I’d take a quick moment to thank everyone who has taken the…
We Have Disabled WP Super Cache
To improve your WordPress performance we have previously advocated using the WP Super Cache plugin to enable pages served from a static cache. This works quite well unless you are doing some form of…
Mobile Device Detection Results
In a previous post I presented the performance numbers for mobile device detection using WURFL and Device Atlas. Our numbers were generated on a data set consisting of 1,572 unique user agents we collected…
Comparative Speed of WURFL and Device Atlas
This has probably been done to death elsewhere, but since I’ve been playing around with WURFL and Device Atlas for mobile device detection, I thought I’d publish some comparative performance numbers. As part…
Mobile Portland Turns One Today
In late 2007, we realized that while there were numerous user groups in Portland, that there wasn't one focused on mobile development. We decided to start one.